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September 12, 2006

Typhoon Shanshan

Sept. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Typhoon Shanshan strengthened from a tropical storm overnight and is forecast to gain more strength as it heads in the general direction of Japan's Okinawa and northern Taiwan, a U.S. weather agency said.
Shanshan, with maximum sustained winds of 129 kilometers per hour (81 miles an hour), was located 925 kilometers southeast of Naha in Okinawa at 3 a.m. today Japan time, the U.S. Navy Joint Typhoon Warning Center said in the latest advisory on its Web site. The storm's winds are gusting to as high as 157 kilometers per hour.
The 14th-named storm of the Pacific cyclone season is moving north-northwest at 7.4 kilometers per hour and is forecast to turn to the north and move closer to Okinawa later this week. Shanshan may strengthen to a Category 3 storm with winds of 193 kilometers per hour, the typhoon center said.
Tropical storms and typhoons regularly hit Japan and scores of people were killed in 2004 when a record number of storms made landfall. Tropical Storm Wukong reached land on Aug. 18 this year near Miyazaki city on the western island of Kyushu, bringing heavy rains and thunderstorms and causing flight cancellations and a halt to oil shipments.
Shanshan is a name often given to pets by young girls in Hong Kong, according to the Web site of the city's observatory.
At least 20 people died in September last year when Typhoon Nabi hit southwestern Japan. A record 10 typhoons and tropical storms hit Japan in 2004, killing more than 60 people and causing billions of dollars of damage.
To contact the reporter on this story: Aaron Sheldrick in Tokyo at asheldrick@bloomberg.net .

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=amLeXAyvXZ2A&refer=asia

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